Still Life Of Jean Chaleyé

Jean or Joannès Chaleyé 1878 - 1960 Landscape painter, flowers. Post-Impressionist. Student at the School of Decorative Arts in Lyon. He continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, in the workshop of Cormon. He participated in the Salon des Artistes Français from 1902. In 1903, he decided to settle in Le Puy to organize the apprenticeship of bobbin lace. He resumed his pictorial activity around 1912 and, in 1931, was appointed director of the School of Arts and Textile Industries in Roubaix. Finally, he retired to Le Puy in 1940. His canvases treated in a postimpressionist style, at the limit of expressionism, seek to render effects of light and shadow, in a bold touch and enamelled colors.